Sunday, 28 September 2008

Is Nothing Sacred?

It's one thing for our new Big Brother organisation Carboot Circus, who've taken over control of some of Bristol's most historic public open spaces, to boot out riff-raff like smokers and bygone religious nutters, but now things have really gone too far. It seems that even Zombies are persona non gratadown at Carboot Circus.

Yesterday morning a group of Zombies, who surely have as much right to enjoy the delights of Carboot Circus as anyone else, gathered in Castle Park (not yet under the auspices of Big Brother) and wandered down to the new Mecca* but were prevented from entering by "the men in dark suits" who normally lurk discretely but ominously in the background.

Presumably "the management" took the view that nothing should distract from the prescribed form of Mammon worship, although the Zombies own moral vacuity would seem to make them natural co-religionists. But such intolerance of even the slightest deviation from religious orthodoxy has always been the hallmark of religious sects reveling in their supremacy.

6 comments:

Spectator
said...

They just threw them out? That’s disgusting! I mean, I thought that this Carboot Circus thingy was supposed to be Bristolian... well, they don't seem to be acting in a very Bristolian manner to me... the proper way to deal with heretics and blasphemers here in Bristol is to pillory and whip 'em, brand a letter "B" on their forehead, bore a hole through their tongue with a hot iron, and then give 'em a couple of years hard labour, a la James Nayler.

These international conglomerates and corporations just don’t understand that we have our own, traditional way of doing things here in Bristol!

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Erstwhile cycle campaigner now obliged to earn an honest living. I bear some responsibility for changes in transport thinking in Bristol that emerged in the 1980s and 90s, notably traffic restraint and traffic calming as well as the promotion of cycling.
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